{"id":31871,"date":"2017-02-01T06:47:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T10:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=31871"},"modified":"2017-01-20T13:09:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T17:09:33","slug":"book-review-freedom-over-me-eleven-slaves-their-lives-and-dreams-brought-to-life-by-ashley-bryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2017\/02\/book-review-freedom-over-me-eleven-slaves-their-lives-and-dreams-brought-to-life-by-ashley-bryan\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Through painted portraits, and the voices and thoughts he imagined for them, three-time Coretta Scott King winner, Ashely Bryan, has created a beautiful picture book relating the lives of eleven slaves. Using an authentic estate document from the Fairchild\u2019s Appraisement, July 5, 1828, that listed each slave with a price, Bryan breathed life and humanity into what was then believed to be the owner\u2019s \u201cproperty.\u201d<\/p>\n

My favorite parts of the book are the pages that express the slaves\u2019 inner thoughts. The illustrations come across as dream-like, which gives a surreal feel to their personal expression. Written in free verse\u2014this would be a perfect read aloud for Black History month.<\/p>\n

Check out Freedom Over Me<\/a> from the Clermont College Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Penny McGinnis
\nTechnical Services Manager<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Through painted portraits, and the voices and thoughts he imagined for them, three-time Coretta Scott King winner, Ashely Bryan, has created a beautiful picture book relating the lives of eleven slaves. Using an authentic estate document from the Fairchild\u2019s Appraisement, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":31872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[791],"tags":[534,1291,838],"class_list":["post-31871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clermont-news-home","tag-black-history-month","tag-book-review","tag-clermont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}